Hans-Hermann Hoppe Professions : Economist Born : September 2, 1949 Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by Hans-Hermann Hoppe What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty. Hans-Hermann Hoppe truth beautiful beauty Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else. Hans-Hermann Hoppe democracies-have freedom taken If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos. Hans-Hermann Hoppe rights funny children Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property. Hans-Hermann Hoppe egalitarianism shapes ideas Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage. Hans-Hermann Hoppe rip democracy justice With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion. Hans-Hermann Hoppe groups risk different Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government. Hans-Hermann Hoppe dangerous-man democracy men It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible. Hans-Hermann Hoppe crime victim people One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs by-everyone else: a "tragedy of the commons" is created. Hans-Hermann Hoppe democracy tragedy men No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot of contracts in my files, but nowhere is there one like this. The state is the result of aggressive force and subjugation. It has evolved without contractual foundation, just like a gang of protection racketeers. And concerning the struggle of all against all: that is a myth. Hans-Hermann Hoppe common-sense foundation struggle The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens. Hans-Hermann Hoppe vacuums libertarian citizens The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by Government, Rudolph Rummel estimates some 170 million government-caused deaths in the twentieth century. The historical evidence appears to indicate that, rather than protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of their citizens, governments must be considered the greatest threat to human security. Hans-Hermann Hoppe pursuit-of-happiness freedom book All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the overutilization and vandalization of factors of production, and the inferior quality of products and services. Hans-Hermann Hoppe saving quality levels Different people rise to the top under socialism than under capitalism. The higher on the socialist hierarchy you look, the more you will find people who are too incompetent to do the job they are supposed to do. Hans-Hermann Hoppe different jobs people Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and live off, what in private dealings between private law subjects is prohibited and considered 'theft' and 'stolen loot.' Hans-Hermann Hoppe stolen finance law Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule. Hans-Hermann Hoppe mob-rule democracy father An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms Hans-Hermann Hoppe contradiction taxation states Thanks to the central bank, most "monetary experts" and "leading macro-economists" can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists "explaining," like alchemists, how stones (paper) can be turned into bread (wealth). Hans-Hermann Hoppe alchemist government experts Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference. Hans-Hermann Hoppe property inequality differences The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that Hans-Hermann Hoppe effort action negative Similar Authors Bryan Caplan economist Burton Malkiel economist Bruno Frey economist Brian Wesbury economist Branko Milanovic economist Andrew Samwick economist All Authors
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